A new improved edition of Survival+ is now available; free ebooks of interest.

Following the advice of readers and my knowledgeable friend Richard Metzger,
I have revised Survival+ with improved readability and a new cover. The
font size has been boosted a point and the text fully justified (in a textual sense,
not an intellectual one, heh).

For those who tried to order the book this past week and were rebuffed by amazon.com,
my apologies; I assumed incorrectly that they would log the order as a backorder
and ship when it became available.

Orders will now be accepted and shipped. Here is the new cover, designed by graphics design
pro Theresa Barzyk at Amped Graphic Design:

Some readers liked the red cover. For better or worse,
the first edition ("the red cover") is now a limited edition. Were demand to rise, this would
render the first edition a collector's item because there will
only ever be 50 signed copies and 300 other copies. Minus demand, of course, the books
retain only their intrinsic value as printed words. Were demand for this first edition to
increase, the lucky holders would potentially see a rise in value. (Supply and demand, etc.)

This second edition will also be limited, as a revised edition will be issued later in 2010.
So while I can't promise there will be any demand for each edition, I can promise that
each edition will be limited in run and thus potentially "collectable." In the meantime,
the book will continue to serve, if nothing else, as an admirable paperweight.

As it stands now, the only way to receive a signed copy is to contribute $40 or more
to this site (see below). This has been the default setting
here for signed books from the start, and while I agree my signature is inherently worthless I myself
like books signed by the author. In any event, the option is there.

If you were kind enough to contribute money to the site in 2009, I consider that a credit
toward the $40 "signed book" offer, meaning that if you donated $25 in 2009 and followed
that up with a $15 contribution in January/February 2010, as a token of my appreciation for your financial support
I will send you a signed book. It isn't much, but it is a sincere token nonetheless.
Without your support, I could not have devoted a year to writing
Survival+.

The great advantage of controlling the ownership and rights to the book in a POD
(print on demand) world is that I can issue new editions at will, with about a 2-week delay
while the revision is processed by my publisher CreateSpace.

Every book attempting to describe the moving parts of the
The Long Emergency (James
Howard Kunstler's excellent phrase and book) which will lead to what I term The
Great Transformation is necessarily a work in progress, and
Survival+ is no different. As new insights and information
flow in from you, the readers and contributors, then various weaknesses in the book
will slowly be repaired and various redundancies edited out.

Given the many other projects weighing my desk, I do not anticipate revising
Survival+ until the end of 2010. As the status quo inevitably
devolves (as per the reasons described in gory detail in the book), then modest revisions
will probably be in order.

The free abridged version of
Survival+ remains available
in either HTML or PDF format.
(85,300 words, 141 pages) You are welcome to
copy this free (copyrighted) abridged version to your computer or print a copy for your own use.

"This guy is THE leading visionary on reality.
He routinely discusses things which no one else has talked about, yet,
turn out to be quite relevant months later."
--Walt Howard, commenting about CHS on another blog.

NOTE: contributions are acknowledged in the order received. Your name and email
remain confidential and will not be given to any other individual, company or agency.

Thank you, Arthur C. ($10), for your very generous contribution
to this site.
I am greatly honored by your support and readership.

Thank you, Dan T. ($25), for your exceedingly generous contribution
to this site.
I am greatly honored by your support and readership.